Personal information | |
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Full name | Carlos Barredo Llamazales |
Born | Oviedo, Spain | 5 June 1981
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 61 kg (134 lb; 9.6 st) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Professional teams | |
2004–2006 | Liberty Seguros |
2007–2010 | Quick-Step–Innergetic |
2011–2012 | Rabobank |
Carlos Barredo Llamazales (born 5 June 1981, in Oviedo, Asturias) is a Spanish former road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional between 2004 and 2012. He was issued a suspension for the first two months of the 2011 season in response to a fight with Rui Costa after a 2010 Tour de France stage, with Barredo claiming that Costa had ridden dangerously in the final stages of the race, but later apologising for his actions. [1]
Barredo was suspended by Rabobank on 18 October 2012 after the UCI opened proceedings for apparent violations of the Anti-Doping Rules on the basis of the information provided by the blood profile in his biological passport. [2] In December of that year, he told Spanish newspaper El Pais that he was retiring from cycling and that he was starting a new job in a café in Madrid. [3] UCI gave him a two-year sanction as a result of abnormalities in his biological passport, and he was disqualified from 26 October 2007 to 24 September 2011. [4]